Swift Boating ‘08
The far Right, fearing Barack Obama’s rock-star status, has bent its will to smearing the freshman senator in any nonsensical way possible. Playing upon our ignorance and bigotry, they’ve practically wet themselves pointing out that his middle name is “Hussein,” and that his last name rhymes with you-know-whose. Karen Russell collects the most [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I would he had some cause to prattle for himself.”
–Measure For Measure, 5.1.183
Gratuitous Video Feed
If you’ve ever wondered how so many people can still support America’s wars, watch Julian Morrow out-Borat Borat, deconstructing American ignorance and jingoism. No, he isn’t really the Prime Minister of Australia.
If the president announced a burgeoning nuclear threat in Appalachia, millions of us would puff out our chests and clamor for air strikes [...]
Billion With a B
The war in Iraq that was a bargain at only US$4.4 billion per month has nearly doubled in upkeep costs. In the coming year we’ll spend 8.4 billion each month:
During testimony at a House Budget Committee hearing, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said that nearly four years into the war, the Pentagon’s war costs were [...]
When is a Right Not a Right?
When the US Attorney General says it doesn’t apply everywhere, not even to all Americans, and he says it right in the Senate’s faces:
[Sen.] Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can’t take it away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn’t that mean you have the right [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“It appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours.” –Hamlet, 2.2.301-3
Drums Of War
In the coming months, as the Bush Administration tries to paint Iran as a burgeoning, imminent threat, let’s recall the offer from Iran that they rejected back in 2003:
Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion.
Offers, including making its nuclear programme more transparent, [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is
it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass
and a fool and a prating coxcomb?” –Henry V, 4.1.77-79
Trillion With a T
New estimates put the cost of the Iraq war somewhere between one and two trillion dollars.
….Linda Bilmes, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and former Clinton administration adviser, put a total price tag of more than $2 trillion on the war. They include a number of indirect [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I perceive but cold demeanor.” –Julius Caesar, 5.2.3-4
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